Month: November 2021

As Twitter’s CTO steps into the CEO role, what will the changes mean for crypto? 

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

On today’s episode, NLW looks at two topics. The first is the market crash that left bitcoin down 8.5% on Friday, only to partially recover over the weekend. NLW looks at the combination of macro factors – led by the Omicron COVID-19 variant – that may or may not have contributed to the turbulence. Second, he looks at the announcement that Jack Dorsey is stepping down from the CEO role at Twitter, to be replaced by Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal. What will this mean for bitcoin? Will Jack be spending more time on the cryptocurrency now? And what about Ethereum? Will a Web 3 blocker inside Twitter now be removed? What about censorship and the Twitter platform itself? 

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Widespread concern about the fast-spreading Omicron variant. Military vaccine deadline. Alleged Jeffrey Epstein accomplice goes on trial. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Alabama

• AL prisons to return to a modified visitation program after a 20 month halt
• AL congressman Barry Moore co-sponsors the Conscience Protection Act
• The 2021 Iron Bowl will go down as the most nerve-racking game with Quadruple OTs
• Lee County Humane Society starts up special  pet adoption rates ahead of theHolidays
• The Capitol Christmas tree arrives in Montgomery today, lighting ceremony to be this Friday

National

• Holiday Hooligans engage in several smash and grabs in at least 3 states
• Wakausha residents place memorial lights one week after parade attack kills 6
• Weekend interview by Dr. Anthony Fauci has him claiming to represent "science"
• By next year Russia Navy ships to deploy new hypersonic Zircon missile that travels at over 6,000mph.

Governments’ rapid responses to a new coronavirus strain were wise. But much is still to be learned about the Omicron variant before longer-term policies can be prescribed. Vietnam’s government wants to create internationally competitive firms, and a growing new class of billionaires suggests the plan is working. And research suggests that social distancing comes naturally to bees under pathogenic threat.

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